Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neil Coles, a top-ranking British golf pro, took a slow boat to Houston last year for the Ryder Cup matches rather than fly, thereby eliminating himself from several tournaments that took place while he was at sea, including the one with the richest first prize of all, the $55,000 Alcan. Singer Jack Landron passed up a free junket to Finland, which he won on TV's Dating Game, because he refused to fly. While designing the capital city of Brasilia, Architect Oscar Niemeyer regularly drove the 575 miles overland from Rio de Janeiro rather than take...
...Shank! As part of a series of articles for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Plimpton set out to play in three tournaments against such golfing greats as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. What happens to him in the process shouldn't happen to a golf ball. His nerve synapses collapse at the thought of the next day's match. His mind invents a nightmarish fantasy in which a team of inept Japanese admirals, located somewhere in his brain, shout useless instructions through the imaginary voice tubes of his creaking body machinery in an effort to help him hit the ball correctly...
...whole apparatus, bent on hitting a golf ball smartly, tips and convolutes and lunges, the Japanese admirals clutching each other for support in the main control center up in the head as the structure rocks and creaks. And when the golf shot is on its way the navymen get to their feet and peer out through the eyes and report: 'A shank! A shank! My God, we've hit another shank...
President (former V.P. and Social Chairman), Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Freshman Jubilee Committee; Kirkland House football and golf...
...less the gay debauchee that he portrays on screen. Much of his social life is standard Hollywood-"a dinner party at Jean Simmons' and Dick Brooks', or over to Lucy's or Dean's house to watch a movie." Otherwise, he divides his time between golf and "lady people." His handicap in the former is twelve; he scores high, too, with the latter. He prefers to entertain girl friends at his place, spurns all invitations to meet a lady person on her home grounds. "I mean, who needs it-the apartment with the bullfighter posters...